Introduction
to Harry Palmer

This is the
(unofficial) Harry Palmer movie site.
The Harry Palmer movies belong to the "serious spy movies". Len
Deighton wrote the novels, but Harry Saltzman (who was also one of the
the producers of James Bond) and his team created the name and movie
character. "Harry Palmer is the thinking man's James Bond", they
said... Michael Caine starred as the "clever Cockney", the spy who
wasn't as glamorous as 007, but was certainly more realistic. The first
three movies, The Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar
Brain, were stylishly made by Saltzman and his team in the Sixties.
Much later, two more were made in 1995, Bullet to Beijing and Midnight
in St. Petersburg. Unfortunately
these films missed everything that
made their predecessors so successful, except for Michael Caine, who
had become older but was still a superpersonality on screen.

These
pages are about Harry Palmer and everything around the short phenomenon.
Check the movie pages in the menu for posters, stills, lobbycards,
radiocommercials, featurettes, trailers, deleted
scenes, soundtracks and a lot more. For more general information about
the Harry Palmer phenomena, read this
article.These
pages describe as much as there is available about the movies or give links to other
pages. Thanks to Terry Hine, Mark
Isaacs, filmcollectief.nl, Peter Hegenbarth and
Pim
Bergkamp for their great contributions. In case you have
material to add, please mail me.

In a magazine it was stated that the actual address was at 395
Upper Richmond Road in Putney, London, but Geoff Dodd proved this
information incorrect and provided the evidence. The real location of
thehouse/villa is Henleighs, Kingston Hill,
Kingston KT2 in London and it still exists but the location isn't open to the public.On the Funeral in Berlin filmlocations pages you'll find aerial shots and other 'then and now' photos.Thanks tot Geoff Dodd for the great find!